Santa Ana

Briante Najev

Briante Najev is a recent addition to the Valley. She came to the UT Rio Grande Valley to research Texan terrestrial snail ecology. Shortly after arriving, She was taken to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge on a birding trip. The biodiversity at Santa Ana is amazing and feeling of being so close to our Mexican neighbors was awe-inspiring. Santa Ana is such a beautiful place that Briante wrote a song about it.